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Many on board cheering as they pulled in to port. Their smooth ride in a different story from the rough seas of sunday noreaster. 30foot waves battered the ship passengers were told to hunker down. Tonight their first chance to get off that cruise ship. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. And lets get right to fox 29s Shawnette Wilson live in bayonne, cape liberty. Shawnette, have passengers started disebarking yet . Reporter oh absolutely, lucy. It is quite the chaotic scene here behind me. Well take a look right now people continue to come out of the terminal here. You can see many of them out trying to make plans as to how theyll get home tonight. People coming out with luggage, suitcases everything they took on this cruise that basically did not happen. A lot of wary faces. Some of them happy. Most excited to be back here at home. And so this cruise ship the anthem of the sea pulled in here to new jersey just after 8 00 oclock tonight. It was a rough trip. I hate to call eight trip because they never made it to their destination what was the bahamas the ship left new jersey on saturday and sunday encountered a very bad storm that passengers described aster feig. They say it tossed them around tossed the boat around. Many people reported they fell on the ship furniture was moving everywhere. And they had no idea a lot of the passengers say that they were coming into a storm until they came in contact with 30foot waves. So very terrifying experience. They had to turn around and come back home and we talked to some of the first passengers to get off the ship tonight. Horrible. Horrible, horrible. I have to tell you it was extremely bad. Ive been in bad situations in my life. That was the worst. I dont scare easy. That scared me. I can honestly say id rather have captain crunch as the captain. He was bad. It was horrible. It was horrible. Whole trip was horrible. We got nowhere. Felt like we got lied to about what really happened. It was bad. Reporter and back here live again, you can see the terminal here as passengers from the ship the anthem of the sea continue to exit the terminal. People out here trying to get them to their destination. The one thing we also know is that some of the passengers arent leaving the ship tonight. They are going to stay another night believe it or not on the ship because as you can imagine they werent expecting to be back here this soon. They were going on a seven day cruise to the bahamas so a lot of them have flights out that arent obviously scheduled for today. A lot of them are from out of town. Theyve got to get transportation back home its getting late and so theyve been offered the opportunity to stay on board the ship another night just for safety purposes and because its so late but, again, a lot of mixed emotion here tonight some of the passengers are happy to be home. Some of them just wary, worn out, and again, you heard the kid say in the background lucy and iain hed have the rather have captain crunch as the captain. Im telling you, shawnette. Unbelievable. Theyre trying to keep a sense of humor about this because what can you do . If it went wrong it went wrong. One woman said, though, she would rather be in the bahamas now theyre back to frigid temperatures here where we are. And thats exactly it. With you in the hat and the coat and the scarf and all of that. Captain crunch that was a quote of the night. Shawnette wilson, thank you so much live in bayonne. Shawnette hit the nail on the head. Its bitter cold already and man theres more on the way as we take a life at wilmington. Tomorrow is going to feel like its in the teens. Already tonight folks dressed like shawnette, hat, scarves, coats to walk out in center city and this is just its just the first round of cold it kathy. It certainly is. Arctic front moving through right now. You can see bands of snow coming off the great lakes, a cold front is drifting down from the south. This is the first of two arctic strong that will pass threw the Delaware Valley and with this tonight a few snow showers are possible. Creates a lift in the atmosphere seeing a little bit of snow you can see along the Eastern Shore of maryland not even connected with this and you can see a few snow showers down through the jersey shore late tonight. Temperatures cold enough for snow everywhere in reading 26. Pottstown 25, 30 in trenton. 32 degrees in wildwood and 30 degrees in millville. So as we look ahead, wind chills will be falling precip tissuesly durintissueslyduring early morn. 16 in pottstown. Seven in the poconos. 21 in millville at ac airport it feels like 18. Overnight tonight temperatures fall to 23 in the city. 17 in the suburbs. Wind chills in the teens in philadelphia. Single numbers in the suburbs. Winds will become gusty and few snow showers possible especially to the north and west of philadelphia overnight. Coming up, five days of frigid details on that and the coldest air coming in that seven day forecast. All right. Kathy, thanks. To a developing story now. As stomach sickness spreading fast at a local college. This morning 50 students fallen ill at Ursinus College in Montgomery County. By this evening, the number had more than doubled and now Health Officials are trying to figure out whats causing the stomach pain and vomiting. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is live in collegeville tonight. Dave . Reporter iain, classes will be held at the college tomorrow, but the dining facilities will remain closed while authorities clean and disinfect them. Tonight, they are still trying to get to the bottom of this. Its kind of scary. Reporter junior Danielle Kenny left a local pizza shop wednesday night. Cheesesteak and fries in hand. Take out order came after the college voluntarily shut down its cafeteria and snack bar when over 100 students were sickened over the last two days. Swept across campus and im hoping for the best im one of the lucky ones. Like virus or food poisoning. We dont know. Im not sure. Lots of theories. Reporter official say the gastrointestinal illness sent 22 students to area hospitals and urgent care facilities. Just really nauseous. Painful like stomach shooting pains, and really drowsy and i feel kind of weak because dehydrated from throwing. Students experienced vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain forcing them to seek medical attention. Were at this point not sure if this is some foodborne illness or if it is being transmitted person to person. Reporter what do you do to protect yourself . Hasnt sanitizer. Reporter the school in Montgomery County Health Officials decided to close the cafeteria and snack bar so they could gather more information on the illness outbreak. I want them to like name it and like know what it is and then like have medicine so we could just reporter take caver it. Yes. Its like scary. Reporter students and employees are being enter viewed, Health Experts are looking at all possible sources of infection and common factors. They are conducting tests for bacteria and viruses. Test results could take week. Were spending extra time obviously in our residential areas and high traffic areas on campus. I dont know when well be back in the dining hall. So we got to plan make plans for breakfast and lunch tomorr tomorrow. Reporter now the college will partner with wawa and wegmans tomorrow to provide a breakfast to go and lunch. They gave students a 10 allowance tonight for dinner they tell us they expect this illness to be gone in the next 24 to 48 hours. But no cause so far tonight. Lucy . Thank you, dave. Officials at Lehigh University every University Say the Pennsylvania Department of health told them one of their students tested possible for zika virus that. Student has since recovered and had traveled to abroad over the winter break. Its not clear if this case is one of the two already confirmed zika cases in the state. Lehigh University Officials say no one on campus is at any risk of catching the virus. Torments night for the first time were hearing from lesean mccoy after a brawl inside an old city club. Just trying to hear your side. You got anything to say . Whats that . inaudible. . I just want to hear if you got anything to say. One more time. I apologize. One more time, shady. Thats shady way group of people coming out of misconduct tavern on jfk boulevard. This video from the philly influencer you can hear someone in the group say the word mistake. The photographer claims that was mccoy saying quote i made a mistake. Now Buffalo Bills star linked to that fight late saturday night inside recess lounge three off Duty Police Officers were hurt. So far tonight no decision on any criminal charges, you decide 2016 fallout after the New Hampshire republican primary after a poor performance there two gop candidates have left the race. One of them is new jerseys own chris christie. Governor had a poor showing in iowa last week and was hoping for a strong showing in New Hampshire. No such luck though he came in sixth place. Well behind donald trump and falling behind the other governors in the race. John kasich and of course jeb bush. That finish meant christie would not qualify for the gop debate ahead of the South Carolina vote. The governor took to facebook today with a message reading in part, i leave the race without an ounce of regret, im so proud of the campaign we ran, the people that ran it with me and all of those who gave us their support and confidence along the way. And after a seventh place finish business woman Carly Fiorina also suss spented her campaign today. Two sheriffs deputes in maryland are dead after investigators say a gunman opened fire on them. The suspect was also killed after an exchange of gunfire. It happened around noon in abington. Authorities say a deputy was called to panera for store for a someone of report of someone causing a disturbance. According to investigators aft the deputy got there 67yearold david evans shot him in the head. Evans ran from the store, then exchange the fire with deputes, killing a second one. Their identities have not been release. Local man who vowed he would never go back to jail died in a hail of gunfire. Tonight investigators say it appears the shooting by police was justified. Six Police Officers opened fire on 33yearold shall lamar longeron monday. He point the a gun at them after a chase through Delaware County. It all began early monday morning when Upland Borough Police officer tried to stop the car who was driving. He sped away. Officers from three departments became involved in that chase. Longer ended up crashing into a parked car in chester. A passenger jumped out and thats when police say longer pulled a gun. The Delaware County District Attorney says the officers believed their lives were in danger. Its clear through the investigation that he made the statement. He had no intention, no intention whatsoever to go back to jail if he was apprehended with a gun he would have went back to jail in this particular case. Longer was a convicted phelonion parole who was not allowed to have a gun. Months after a string of robberies at local bus stops, a guy targeting people with a gun Philadelphia Police say theyve got their man. Officers arrest the 22yearold eric heys they say hes behind nine robberies throughout the month of december. The victims all said the gunman took their cell phones. Police say after one of the robberies, heys was caught on surveillance video. Thats how they track him down. Police say they found evidence linking him to all of the crim crimes. This sounds like the script of an action movie. A passenger on plain pass as secret note from the Flight Attendant the message that had him racing to her for help. The battle over Drinking Water in south jersey. Why some say theyre too scared to drink what comes out of their faucet. Terrifying ride to school and students see a kid bull out a gun and load it. A few seats behind the driver. What one student did next police say saved lives. And he was an all star student athlete at the top of his game until one day tragedy struck. I didnt see any other opti option. It was like i have a choice to be miserable or not. How a horrible accident became his biggest inspiration. A live look again from bayonne cape Liberty Royal caribbean anthem of seas just docked tonight. Nightmare trip finally over aft getting caught in a storm. Well stay on top of this throughout the hour. Live look at bayonne cape liberty where Royal Caribbean anthem of the seas just docked tonight. You can see a lot of passengers are coming off of that ship right now. Others decided to go and spent the night. Their nightmare ship is ending after the ship got caught in a storm. Authorities are trying to track down a driver involved in deadly hitandrun. Berlin Borough Police say 55yearold john hays was killed after two vehicles hit him on tansboro road back in january. The first vehicle stomped at the scene but then cops say a Nissan Sentra took off and is shown on this video pulling into the parking lot of the Golden Nugget tavern minutes after the incident. Police say the drive enters the bar. So anyone with information should call police. Concerns tonight about water contamination in one new jersey community. The morristown Township Council held a special meet to go night to talk about the issue and residents well they showed up in force. They want to know are they now at risk. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell was at that meet to go night. You cant feel drinking your water. Reporter something is in the water in moorestown. And its not pretty. Pcp is manmade chemical. Standing room only emergency meeting is filled with residents demanding answers as to why their water is contaminated. Tap water continues to meet state and federal Drinking Water standard. Reporter township officials are assuring residents their Drinking Water is safe. Even after higher traces of chemicals are still being found in the water after more than two years. The chemicals try color propane and try color ethylene according to the National Institutes of health tce is considered a carcinogenic to humans and tcp is commonly found in Hazardous Waste sites. But Officials Say the contaminants were not at harmful levels. Definitely dont feel save drinking it. In fact, today we just installed a very costly filtration system because we couldnt we didnt feel right putting that water in our bodies or our childrens bodies any more. We feel like were poisoning them. The probable let me with the contaminated water got so bad the township began buying water from another utility and even closed down one of its aging treatment plants. I truly believe we are safe. Now, with that being said i want to make sure we have the best quality Drinking Water. The township is already in the process of Building Three new Water Treatment plants and replacing old mains. But those fixes are years away. In the meantime, worries. We drink the water weve done so since griffin was baby. Absolutely we want to make sure its good. Reporter back out here live, that meeting still going on as we speak. Now, since those permanent fixes could be years away, i can tell you moorestown city or township officials just approved temporary Emergency Water plant to be built within six months from now. Although residents say thats still too long. We can tell you that even those temporary plants it will be awhile residents say and that could be a couple hundred thousand dollars, lucy . A lot of money. All right, chris, thank you. Police in deptford new jersey arrest add man accused of of starting a fire in an apartment building. 25yearold are a tease of woodbury faces arson and other charges. He started a fire inside the Chestnut Lane apartments yesterday morning. The fire displaced 26 residents. No word yet as to a possible motive. Brian is in jail unable to post 100,000 bail. Investigators are still trying to track down the cause of a fire at this home in philadelphias West Oak Lane neighborhood. This is the 6600 block of north uber street. The fire started on the second floor a little after 2 30 this afternoon. No one was hurt. Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane survived a vote to remove her from office. But an effort to impeach her is moving ahead. Kane faces criminal trial accused of of leaking secret information and lying about it under oath. Shes lost her license to practice law. The state senate failed in its attempt to remove her from office today when it couldnt muster a twothirds majority. Democrats largely rejected the measure in the state house lawmakers did vote to begin the process of impeaching kane. Panel would begin an investigation which could result in a trial in the senate. Delaware governor jack markell signing a resolution that apologizes for the first states role in slavery. That resolution was passed by state lawmakers in january. It also apologizes for wrongs committed against africanamericans during the jim crow era. The mesh hopes to promote reconciliation and healing. One of philadelphias most famous parks is get all revam revamped. City leaders attending groundbreaking ceremony today at love park. 16,000,000. 1year renovation will add more green space, new fountain and renovations to the Welcome Center at jfk plaza and also offer new dining area. Those behind the project say the popular tourist attraction really needs to look its best. Its a Center City Park but its a lot more than that. Its a place for all citizens, all citizens from all over this city to come and gather. What if you want to snap a picture in front of that famous love statue. You still can. Crews are moving it temporarily to dilworth park at city hall while workers give the park a makeover. Teen was walking home from school. Guy game up to her. Said he was a cop and told her he wanted to go inside her home. He then started to grope the girl. What she asked him next that had him running. Safety experts sent this hoverboard under heat lamps within minutes its smoking on fire. What the board does next that is even scarier. And what one fast food giant just added to its menu raising some eyebrows tonight. Now with tomorrows traffic heres bob kelly. Good evening, everybody. Another rough start to tomorrow i think is going to be ahead of us. Temps down into the teens and the 20s tonight that means well have a black ice to start tomorrow mornings rush hour. Especially in the neighborhoods and those untreated road surfaces. Same deal for mass transit. Look out tomorrow for the slippery platforms the steps to and from the buses even the parking lot even your front step when you step out that front door and if you are going to be flying tomorrow, expect possible weather delays at the airport. Well have the whole scoop when we kick it off bright and early tomorrow at 4 00. Now your winning lottery numbers. At least 22 people are hurt after a car and schoolbus collide in riverside county, california. 19 high School Students were on the bus at the time of the wreck. Medic took four people to the hospital. Theres no word yet on their conditions. Investigators are still trying to figure out what happened that might cause that crash. Mans best friend among the earthquake survivors in taiwan. A dog made it out of the rubble alive after days when rescuers pulled her from the collapsed building. Authorities say they have rescued at least 170 people and more than 100 are believed to still be buried under that debris. At least 38 people died. Three Construction Company executives are in custody on charges of professional negligence in connection with the collapse building. 18yearold florida man in jail for drinking a gun on to schoolbus. Deputes say thanks to students tip everyone is okay. This all went down this morning near tampa. Authorities got a 911 call from someone who got a text from a person on that bus claiming that a student was loading a gun on board. So deputes caught up with the bus and took all seven students from it. 18yearold Jamarcus Sims was arrested. Investigators found a 9millimeter pistol, magazine loaded with 12 rounds and a black ski mask. Were trying to interview the suspect to see did he have intentions of taking it to school . Did he realize someone was watching him and thats why he hid it . Investigators determined that gun was stolen. Charges are still penning. It sounds like the script of an action movie. A night attendant pass add secret not note to a passenger on a plane. The message that had him racing back to her to help. He was an all star student athlete top of his game until one day tragedy strikes. How horrible accident became his biggest inspiration. Kathy . And the polar vortex makes a return. Not one but two arctic fronts sending us into five days of frigid. Details coming up. Nightmare finally to comes to an end for the people on cruise we have been watching for awhi awhile. Royal caribbean anthem of the seas docked in new jersey tonight days after a storm battered the ship. Were live in bayonne next. Winners are showing up all over pennsylvania. And with more than 500,000 winners of match 6, cash 5, and Treasure Hunt every single week, thats not a big surprise. Winners, winners everywhere play today we are about to take bitly cold dive. So what is on tap, kathy orr. Were talking about a few snow showers coming in with an arctic front that arctic front to the north and west. I think to the north and west of philadelphia we have the best chance of seeing a few scattered snow showers during the overnight. Thats just about it. But looking at another band of snow that originated well to our west in and north kind of swinging through the Eastern Shore through parts of delaware you can see in cumberland and cape may counties a few snow showers passing through. Thorn a quiet frigid night and a windy night. Look at the camera shaking at the airport on the tarmac pretty quiet. See a little car going by there otherwise the cold is really the big story. Right now in philadelphia 31 degrees at the airport. Winds out of the west sustained at 18. Gusting to 25. The wind chill is 19 and falli falling. In philadelphia 31. Norfolk 32. Pittsburgh 16. That is the cold thats coming. Marquette six. Milwaukee 10. But the core of the cold air you know is in canada and that cold air is rushing over the polls over hudson bay and toward us. 17 below in martin falls. Musk ram dam 13 below. Matagami airport in ontario 13 below. This arctic area will continue to pass over the bay down over the great lakes noon the philadelphia area. So we are talking about dangerous cold by the time the weekend rolls around. So between thursday and monday, five days below freezing. Highs and lows the coldest will be sunday morning the record is two very close to that record. Possibly around 3 degrees. Winds gusting to 30 miles an hour sustained 15 to 25 out of the west becoming northwest after the arctic fronts and scattered snow showers through the period with the cold and windy conditions. So wake up sunday morning this is as cold as its going get. Zero to 10 below down the shore. Participating in the polar plunge saturday almost just as cold. 10 to 20 below through philadelphia and suburbs. And through the Lehigh Valley and the poconos 20 to 25 degrees below zero. That is what it will feel like sunday morning for valentines day. Thats why they call it hug your honey weather. During the overnight in the city 23. 17 in the suburbs a few snow showers possible to the north and west but a cold breeze. During the day tomorrow, down right blustery with winds gusting to 30. Wind chills between 12 and 16 with a temperature of 29. Our suburbs little bit colder, wind chills will be in the single numbers. You can see the consecutive cold right through monday. The coldest day will be sunday with a high of 19. The low of three. Monday a few snow showers possible. Then we warm it up so that could change over to rain on tuesday and then look at wednesday. We bounce up close to 50 degrees and partly sunny. So a big change could be a major change for the second half of the month. Love that. Thank you. Youre welcome. laughter . All right. We do have breaking news. Passengers on a storm battered cruise ship are back in port. Theyve got a lot to say about their time on the anthem of the seas. And this is the ship that sailed into noreaster sunday night it arrived in bayonne new jersey less than an hour ago. And one word we just keep hearing from passengers tonight is horrible. Thats how theyre describing their vacation that storm cut short. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson joins us live in bay own tonight, zahn net. Reporter iain and lucy we have since stepped inside the terminal where a lot of passengers are waiting to trying to make plans to get home tonight. Im going to bring in mark and debra, they just arrived here in the terminal. Come on over. They are from wayne, new jersey. Yes. How does it feel to be home tonight. Really really good. Great to be home and we had great time even though all kinds of problems we had a good time. A great time. Im happy to hear that. What made it so great weve heard otherwise. The staff was really good. You know, the weather was pretty scary sometimes but they did good job to make us feel safe. We wept to shows. We ate great meals and it was fun. Right . Debra, describe the conditions when you guys realized you were up against the storm . It was very scary and very wavy. Unlike anything we ever ever experienced before and we just were wondering when it was going to be over and about 12 hours it was over and then everything kind of got back to normal very quickly. Have you crowed before. Many times. Many times. Many many times. Will you cruise again. Absolutely. Yeah. I dont think it will ever happen again. This is the one time it happened and this is our time to survive. What were most of the other passengers like . You guys seem to have a positive attitude about it. Good thing you made it back safely. What were the other passengers like, what was the atmosphere . Some of the people got very nervous. Especially first time cruisers, and they were complaining about lot of thing but the people that knew what was going on and people experienced we just said thats part of cruising. Basically. What do you do in a time like this . Aside from the activities to keep your mind focused on the positive things . We watched lot of tv that night and we couldnt go out of the room we ate very exciting dinner of pringles and took it easy really pretty much. We heard the five course meals were very scarce. Whats the first thing youre going to do when you get home. Look for another cruise. laughter . Thank you so much. Good luck to you. Thank you for taking time with us. Thank you. Again, the anthem of the seas arrived back here in new jersey. I want to say after 8 00 oclock tonight. You kind of know the story here. They left new jersey on saturday. They haded to florida the final destination was the bahamas they entered a storm so they never made it. The ship had to turn around and come right back. A lot of passengers as you heard mark and debra just say complained about things moving around on the ship they didnt have food to eat. And so it was rough to get home. Shawnette wilson of course live there in bay own, new jersey. As live shot goss, sometimes they dump out much but that couple was a happy couple, man. Ill tell was. Going on another cruise. I wouldnt be doing that. Good for them. Their seasoned cruise sr. S. Safety experts set this haver board under heat lamps and within minutes its smoking and on fire. What the board does next that. A teen walking home from school a guy says hes a cop and wants to come into her home. He then starts to grope the girl. What she asked him next that had him running. Porsche got the judges singing along as American Idol kicks off duet round. 24 singers sang solo tonight tomorrow theyll perform with idol alum. Idols of the past will be on stage with current contestants. You can watch American Idol every wednesday and thursday right here on fox 29. In your money tonight, move over whopper burger king has something its menu its a hotd hotdog. Fast food chain posted this picture on its website. The company says grilled hotdogs are coming to some of its stor stores. On february 23rd. Burger king says its dogs are made with with hundred beef. You can expect a classic dog to go for a buck 99 and chili cheese dog will cost you 2 and some change. Private company certifies electronics sets hoverboard on fire to teach firefighters a lesson. Under writes laboratories or ul heated the lithium ion battery on hoverboard. The company wanted to show the progression of the fire and what happens is pretty mazing. Seven minutes in the haver board battery pops and starts to smoke. 15 seconds later it burst noose flames and the board spewed names all over the room. Ul sets it wants firefighter that is see this video so they know what to expect if theyre called to a hoverboard related fire. That is powerful. This sounds like a scene right out of a spy movie. Passengers sitting on a plane when Flight Attendant walks up and passes him secret note. He says that Flight Attendant told him it was the rest of his boarding pass. The note written on cocktail napkin had on the top two seat numbers and the words other armed passengers. Right away he knew something wasnt right. Went up to her, gave it to her and said maam this wasnt intended for me. She just said oh, god. And that was it. Turns out that Flight Attendant had mistaken him for an air marshall. The note telling him there were two other Law Enforcement officers on the planes with guns that is standard procedure. Frontier Airlines Says the mistake happened after the customer changed seats on the plane. He says that was always his assigned seat. All star student athlete. The top of his game until one day tragedy struck. I didnt see any other opti option. It was like i have a choice to be miserable or not. How horrible accident became his biggest inspiration. Choose, choose, choose. But at bedtime . Why settle for this . Enter sleep number, and the ultimate sleep number event, going on now. Sleepiq technology tells you how well you slept and what adjustments you can make. You like the bed soft. Hes more hardcore. So your sleep goes from good to great to wow only at a sleep number store. Right now save 50 on the ultimate limited edition bed. Know better sleep with sleep number. Walk home from school turned into scary afternoon one teen wont for g as she walked up to her home a guy appeared at her front door saying he had arrest warn. Believing he was a cop the teen let him into her house. Thats when police say the man started commenting on her physical appearance. The girl claims the man pulled her into a hug and said sexually inappropriate things. Oh, god, too much. Too much. You have to always teach your children about things like that. This world is not safe no matter where you are. The teen told police at that point she started questioning him about the warrant and left the residence. Police are still looking for him tonight. Elephant on the loose in Indian Village wreaked havoc the Wild Elephant ran around smashed homes and send crowds running for cover. Authorities shot in elephant with tranquilizer gun and used a crane to lift it on to a truck. The elephant is now sleeping off that tranquilizer in a park for domesticated elephants. Authorities plan to return it to the forest when it wakes up. No one is hurt including we understand the elephant. Penn state soccer star who had dreams of playing professionally one day. Sports were always a part of his life growing up and they still are. But win the past year, hes found a new passion with new goals in mind. Tom srendenschek spend a day at penn state to tell brents story of perseverance. Lucy brett grew up youngest of three children and sports always a big part of his life. Baseball, soccer, you name it, if competition was involved if the drive to to be the best was involved you could count brett in. And you still can. I do it because i love it. I mean its all i know. Nestled in the corner of penn states campus is brett grab bits home 176yard indoor track. This is a mental right here. Under this blanket of snow was his old home. Penn state soccer field. He was arising star for the nittany lions. The net is right in front of the state and soccer. Bob is penn state soccer coach. Brett got the gathered the ball there. Brett scored penn states only goal in 2014ncaa tournament ga game. One of top five goals youll ever see life. I never forget. What he would like forget was a text message he got from brett two days after christmas that year. Ive been in an accident, and hurt his back and didnt think he was going to walk again and had to use emoticons with tears coming down. Snow boring accident on the day after christmas in 2014 left him permanently paralyzed from the chest down. Everything changed that night on a mountain in virginia. His athletic dreams were on hold. But the human spirit in brett had a different plan. I just remember spending a lot of time in the hospital and just like i got two choices here. I mean this is my life. I didnt see any other option. It was like i have choice to be miserable or not. But he needed some help. Im very good at coaching and getting the person are there. Former olympian terry jordan runs penn states ability athletics program. I think its just an inner drive that you dont give that either you got it or you dope. He wants to be the best no matter what sport it is. Just nine months aft leaving a Rehab Facility in atlanta without the use of his legs and soccer dreams behind him brett has pick himself up with new goals in front of him. Ranked 22nd in the world in wheelchair racing. He believes and hes right that he can be special in things that he does. Whoo the drive to be better than good lives in the best athletes. Feel a little blood pumping to the chest. Theres still a question he asks himself. Why me . You walk around campus and youre the one person in a wheelchair, and you know, you get looks from people. Might not be dirty look but theyre curious. You dont want that unwant attention sometimes. What happened in snowboarding accident didnt close a consider for brett, it opened a new one. How it lined up and everything after my injury just like say its a coincidence is not doing it justice. Tragedy took brett from the soccer field to a wheelchair but in so many ways it didnt change who he really is. This young man lives his life every day by an old expression, do what you can where you are with what you have. Teddy roosevelt saw that. I just saw that. It felt like it hit me and i related to it. For athletes and non athlet athletes, success is measured in different ways. Medals come and go. World records come and go. But the kind of imprint that theyll leave on elses life is far more important and thats what brett is going to do. I was meant for his path, whether i like it or not, but im just going to choose to embrace it. So its my life and i cant take it back so i can only go forwa forward. Brett hopes to compete in three marathons this year. Chicago, new york and boston. And while the summer para Olympic Games this september in rio may be too much to ask this fast remember hes only been in a wheelchair for nine months, i wouldnt bet against him right now. I asked him if he considers himself a roll model for people. He says no. Both of his coaches says hes and doesnt realize. Theres a little role model in brett for all of us. Hes humble and already world ranked. 22nd in the world and only been in that chair for eight, nine months. Amazing. Incredible. Inspirational. Heres look whats coming up in sports with howard eskin. The flyers, not good these days. General manager he spoke out about why hes not really happy with the team the way they played last night and he talks about it. And the sixers out did themselves again tonight. The sixers how they find ways to lose. Another wonderful Fourth Quarter collapse all that coming up in sports. Well, i can honestly say the sixers are not just bad a team they are a really bad team. I say that after watching this season obviously. But the last two games were sad the way they lost. The last game they 19point lead in the second half. Tonight they had a 17point lead in the second half. And they lost to a bad sacremento team. To the wells fargo sent. Its ugly. Second quarter Robert Covington had a good night. Seven, threes, 29 points. Sixers led 6348 at the half. But then you got the second half. Third quarter, turnovers. Jahlil okafor and rondo on the break. He had 14 points, 15 assists. Now lets go to the Fourth Quarter. Another turnover which the sixers had plenty of in the second half. Nick in the second half had 25 points off the bench. Thats a three right there. Dedee marcus cousins had 28 points. Sacremento scored 39 points in the Fourth Quarter. The sixers lose 114110. Another cover for the sixers the head coach has another term for this team imploding in the Fourth Quarter. Talk about it all the time. We do it all the time and we get in this frozen mode where we need more movement. We need it to go through hands more. The other night was terrible. You know really poor. I thought tonight to night we moved it better but it still is not to the level that we want it. Brett you got top watching disney movies. Let it go is the song. St. Jeez playing gw tonight. St. Joes Phil Martelli this if team was going to be win. 20 wins. They were the underdog against George Washington so they win tonight. The flyers not playing good hockey these days just when some fans thought they had play off team they lose three straight. Last night was of the worse of the three against anaheim. To the wells fargo center. Last night the flyers showed no life in the first period when they fell behind by two goals. It wasnt much better after the flyers lost the game and lost the fight thes. General manager certainly wants accountability. Not happy with the third of the three straight losses. I think the weekend we had as you acknowledge we had good efforts. We good performances and quite honestly deserved a better fate. Last night was that wasnt good. Thats not acceptable. No, it wouldnt be. The sixers are not acceptable. How do you blow those leads. Thats incredible the second half. No defense. They dont know what defense is. laughter . We got breaking news by the way. Lets get back out to it. One last look from bayonne cape Liberty Royal caribbean anthem of seas dock late tonight. Nightmare trip for many, remember, shawnette talk to the couple that had a good time. Theyre going on another cruise. Its already finally coming to an end after the ship got caught up in a storm. Well be back in bayonne tomorrow morning as more passengers deport. All right. Full hour of Entertainment News coming up next tmz festival of familiesed by dish nation, then tune into chasing news and the simpsons. Back here at 4 00 a. M. For fox 29 morning news and good day philadelphia and your your powerball drawing is next. Good luck.

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